mortality. The economy consists of two sectors: final goods production and a health care sector, selling medical services to … individuals. Individuals demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We derive the age …

We develop a quantitative theory of mortality trends and population dynamics. We emphasize diseases as causes of death … and individuals' decisions to reduce their mortality by adopting, at some cost, a modern health-related technology … generates an S-shaped diffusion curve, whose shape dictates the pace of mortality reduction in each country. We use the model to …

applications amongst which we find stochastic mortality modelling, forecasting of death causes as well as profit and loss modelling …

We study medical progress within an economy of overlapping generations subject to endogenous mortality. Individuals … demand health care with a view to lowering mortality over their life-cycle. We characterise the individual optimum and the …

overlapping generations economy in which individuals purchase health care to lower mortality. We consider three sectors: final …

growth, focusing on the effects of declining mortality. Unlike the existing literature, this paper stresses the role of … precautionary demand for children. As the mortality rate and thus uncertainty falls, this demand decreases. Furthermore, lower … mortality encourages educational investment in children. The key result is that this empirically observed quality-quantity trade …